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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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isle 214 ft. wide through the center. Sixof the cars contain thirty-six cells each and the seventh containsthirty-two cells, with a switchboard room at one end. As theload on the cars was to weigh about 40,000 lbs., the sills were re-inforced by the addition of heavy truss-rods. The car bodies andparts liable to be attacked by the acid fumes were painted withasphaltum and the sides left open. The seven cars were coupledas a continuous train and side-tracked in a shed close to the mainline. The end cells in each car were connected by rubber-coveredwire, the negative connected to the tracks and the positive to theside feed wires. The Brighton Beach Railway is an overhead trolley line, doubletrack, yyi miles in length, over which, in summer, trolley carsare run at a high speed on i 1-3-minute headway, and five-carelectric trains on 20-minute headway. It carries passengers toand from the Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay race tracksand to the Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach hotels. The
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CURVE NO. 3 nearest point of feed is 2 miles from the power station, and themost distant point 8J<^ miles. For the proper operation of thetrains it was essential that the voltage should not drop below 450amps, on any part of the line. To prevent local drops in thetrolley wires, they were supplemented by two 500,000 circ. milcables, run the entire length of the road and joined together atfrequent intervals. The current was brcniglil from the stations over eight 500,000circ. mil cables, tapped into the supplementary wires in pairs, atpoints very nearly equidistant. The two nearest points of feed—24 miles and 2)i rniles from the station—were fed from the sta-tion bus. The more distant points—4^/4 miles and yyl miles—were sup))h\cl thron^li boosters in the power station, one boost- 342 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVIIL No. 12. ing 150 volts and the other from 350 volts to 450 volts. Thestorage battery was connected at the point where the last boosterfed into the line, about i

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